This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the process that Krakauer and his group mates go through before moving higher up on the mountain? A) Oxygenation. B) Acclimatization. C) Maturation. D) Actualization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acclimatization. 2. Romanticism focused mostly on A) Politics. B) Feelings. C) Religion. D) Education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings. 3. The reader is TOLD what a character is like A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 4. Andres Jackson was: A) A foreign scammer. B) The name of the jumping frog. C) A bulldog. D) Jim Smiley's pseudonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bulldog. 5. Exposed and barren and often windswept; not hopeful or encourage:DEPRESSING (adj) The ..... landscape, with its barren fields and gray skies, gave me a feeling of hopelessness. A) Bleak. B) Elation. C) Facet. D) Spectacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bleak. 6. "A little later, he came back on and rasped in a slow, horribly ..... voice, "Hi sweetheart. I hope you're tucked up in a nice warm bed. How are you doing?"" A) Roiled. B) Discrepant. C) Distorted. D) Unconstrained. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distorted. 7. Abnormal, unusual A) Ameliorate. B) Prodigious. C) Deposition. D) Notorious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prodigious. 8. What oratorical technique is not found in Franklin's speech? A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical Questions. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 9. Read the sentences. As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running. Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts. What is the BEST way to combine the sentences to maintain their detail while avoiding repetition? A) Clearing my mind of stressful thoughts, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running, since I am an avid runner. B) Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts as an avid runner, so I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running. C) As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges without going running, which helps me clear my mind of stressful thoughts. D) As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running because going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges without going running, which helps me clear my mind of stressful thoughts. 10. From reading "The Earth on Turtle's Back, " you can tell that the Onondaga value certain things in culture. Which of these items to they value? A) Animals and riches. B) Animals and dreams. C) Clouds and dreams. D) Clouds and riches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animals and dreams. 11. To weigh down or burden; to fill up, block, hinder A) Encumber. B) Impassive. C) Disconsolate. D) Incontrovertible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encumber. 12. The opposite of a prosaic composition is a ..... composition A) Trite. B) New. C) Instrumental. D) Inspired. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspired. 13. The opposite of heresy is A) Propagated. B) Orthodoxy. C) Comedy. D) Contraband. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orthodoxy. 14. In which Washington Irving book does the short story "Rip Van Winkle" appear? A) "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon". B) "Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains". C) "Tales of a Traveler". D) "The Alhambra". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon". 15. What is a word that modifies a noun? A) They tend. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adjective. 16. Who wrote the "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" ? A) Thomas Jefferson. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) Thomas Paine. D) Philip Freneau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Paine. 17. The reason why Washington agreed to "compromise" with the former bosses is that: A) He got personal benefits. B) He wanted to return to slavery. C) I wanted to avoid violent reactions. D) He was a conformist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I wanted to avoid violent reactions. 18. Repetition of the beginning sounds of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Slant rhyme. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. Which of the following is NOT a literary manifestation of the Literature of Exploration? A) Diaries. B) Poems. C) Journals. D) Reports. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poems. 20. There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, ..... But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. A) William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation. B) John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity". C) Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana. D) Christopher Columbus, "Letter of Discovery". 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